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Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Pettitte and Mussina

By Tangotiger, 06:40 PM

This is just a simple and powerful chart:

Focus on the Pettitte and Mussina lines, with respect to the two straight lines next to them. Mussina’s career parallels that of an average HOFer. Pettitte’s career parallels that of a borderline one. So simple and clear this way.

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Here’s a related thread:

I always trot out these 9 starters, as they were born between 1962-1971, and clearly represent the best starters of this generation:

+128 Clemens
+97 Maddux
+92 Randy

+75 Pedro
+75 Mussina

+70 Schilling
+67 Glavine
+65 Brown
+65 Smoltz

As I said, Mo is at +47, when you depress his leverage. Otherwise, he’d be around +65 if you give him credit for the full LI.

Basically, you have to decide how big you want to make your Hall of Fame. For a 10-yr birth period, how many pitchers do you want in your HOF? About 7-9 pitchers and 14-18 nonpitchers? More? Less?

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